Although you might treat Saint as a title when indexing the name of a saint, "Saint" in the name of a church is not a title. It's an indispensable part of the...
Usability (purely a personal reaction; not based on any statistical study): have all the saints in alphabetic order by their names. Forced sorting. (The...
You are definitely on the right track with your research/studies "bibliography. If You cite authors or other bibilographic information information for this...
Charles said: "However, I also have Saints Peter and Paul Church." Just for clarification is this one church or two? If it is two, I would separate them and...
It is one church. Had it been two, I wouldn't have been doubtful about how to alphabetize. I went with the suggestion to put Saints after all the St.'s...
Thank you Carol and Pam for your help. The bibliography in the chapter is not annotated and is in fact very similar to the one in the back of the book. I think...
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Aug 2, 2006 9:42 am
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Something which I have just discovered, while looking at a problem for someone on another list, might be of interest to some here, given the perennial...
It sounds like the author wanted this to be an introduction. My might want to find out what his purpose was for this chapter. And find out the importance of...
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Aug 2, 2006 1:34 pm
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A little further investigation: ... In the Reveal Formatting pane, the "Selected text" box does not even show the symbol (for me, it says "Sample Text" and...
Hi there, For what it's worth, the family is Bifidobacteriaceae and the the genus is _Bifidobacterium_. In Wikipedia, I notice that the probiotic value is...
[cross-posted] In Celebration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Society of Indexers ... The fifth in our series of...
Hello! I am indexing a book whose meta topic is relationships. Every subtopic is about relationships. I initially included an ME: relationships and gathered...
Hello! I am indexing a book whose meta topic is relationships. Every subtopic is about relationships. I initially included an ME: relationships and gathered...
I would eliminate ME relationships, then try setting your first level subentries up to main entry. Reconsider your decision regarding third-level headings....
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... Thanks for the suggestions. I appreciate your input very much and will consider sses though it's a little late in the game for me to go there- deadline is...
Chapters of a book I am indexing are all prefaced with spiffy quotations from the likes of Willam Shakespeare and Franz Kafka. Presently I have them noted in...
Hi Margy, you'll be amazed at how soon you'll be answering questions. I don't normally index those shoutouts at all. If you aren't sure, ask your editor. Some...
Those are epigraphs. When I learned indexing, I was taught that you don't index 'em. However, in some books they relate closely to the text. They might be...
Margy was asking specifically about epigraphs, which is a different issue from passing mentions of names. If a name is truly a passing mention (which has...
... Thanks everyone.... I am removing the index entries for the epigraphs- now I know what an epigraph is and can enlighten another coh=nfused soul along the...
Hello! I am a student from Illinois new to the UC Berkeley Indexing course. I am hoping to begin indexing part-time at the conclusion of the course. I have...
I'm getting sick of Internet and Web sites, and now there's freakin blogs too. How are people handling this issue? Can we start just using Internet now? and...
I'm not sure what Rae means. I find Web site research invaluable. The Library of Congress is a Web site, as are PubMed, Google Scholar, the Congressional...
... Oh, sorry. I knew what I meant, LOL. I meant for consolidating in indexes. Indexes end up with entries for Internet, for Web sites, for blogs. I want to...
In a message dated 8/7/2006 9:50:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, racric@... writes: <...Are we there yet?...> It probably depends on the audience of the...
... The Internet is not the same as websites (or, the World Wide Web). The Internet came first and is a transport mechanism for the WWW among other things. I...
... Yeah, that's a big part of the problem. I no longer make entries for World Wide Web, even if used in a book, which is very rare nowadays. If it is in the...
